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What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.


William Shakespeare

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
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NEIL GAIMAN A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
PROVERB A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath t...
ALEXANDER HENRY It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loa...
ALEXANDER HENRY O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
EVAN ESAR You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life...
WOLE SOYINKA O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion ...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by you...
PETER S. BEAGLE She leaned in to smell the apricot-tinted rose whose petals had just unfolded into a ruffled cup. Th...
ELLEN HERRICK My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace.
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curi...
C.S. LEWIS Smell that! That's gasoline you smell in there. You can't buy any perfume in the world that smells a...
WILLIAM K. WHITEFORD There is a girl.
I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO Heavy is the head that wears the crown
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CHARMAINE J. FORDE O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation...
JOHN DONNE Very well."
"Say it."
"Say what?"
"Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"
She r...
SARAH J. MAAS They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense...
JAMES PATTERSON I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE I think that they should call a cheese grater by its real name...a sponge ruiner.
MITCH HEDBERG Pleasure to meet you, Prince Larden. The name is Lady Thaddea from House of Wright."
"Yeah, I ...
REA LIDDE The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call the...
SYLVIA BROWNE I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM I cannot support for a moment any system of education which in the name of denominationalism or unde...
EDMUND BARTON 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answ...
MORRIS MANDEL Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true n...
VERA NAZARIAN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger.

"U...
GARTH NIX William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad na...
GERALDINE A. FERRARO In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT HUMPHREY In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her "Sue" -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally...
DENNIS WOLFBERG It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousn...
RICHARD D. ROSEN But don't ever call her ex-boyfriends by his name,
CHRISTOPHER CURTIS I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I...
BRUCE STERLING Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr....
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.
DAVID SUZUKI We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal...
STEPHEN HAWKING Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
DADA VASWANI My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, re...
WILLIAM STAFFORD what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Ole...
RICHELLE MEAD Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I didn't have any pedigree or any last name that would get me an opportunity to get looked at by...
SETH ROLLINS William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty sa...
LEWIS CARROLL Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when t...
EMILY DICKINSON [Yet many employers, in their eagerness to hire, may not scrutinize the
papers they're given.]...
DANIEL KANE There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, ...
FRANK SINATRA Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
HERACLITUS Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.
JIM BUTCHER I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN It was all very puzzling—both that Jill could smell still more like Jill… and that Dorcas should...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in b...
BARBARA DEMING Um, I don’t know your name but -”
“Knight,”
“Right, Mr. Knight-”
“No, K...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; whi...
WILLIAM LAUD More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
GLEN COOK Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actua...
MICHELLE HODKIN My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
TERRY PRATCHETT I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors ...
GERALDINE FERRARO HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old w...
AMBROSE BIERCE Why don't Christians call Jesus by the name he identified with: 'I Am?'
AARON SANTOS Now, if Peter baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ after Jesus told him to baptize in the name of Fa...
REV. WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.
The god of the dead.
KATE ROOPER I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE The metro camp is trying very hard to commemorate Rabin and do as many things as possible to mention...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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